466 New groups and new singles
The popularity of Lin Junshui and Masami Nagasawa's marriage news continued until the end of the Japan Film Academy Awards. This was of course the result of Lin Junshui and his team. After all, the gains of "Willie's Wife" in this awards season are enough, and there is no need to use the popularity of the two to attract attention. At the same time, the Japanese entertainment industry also needs to pay attention to a little "martial ethics". Lin Junshui and Masami Nagasawa have been dominated by headlines for a long time, and it will take other artists to lose resources.
After the end of this wave of publicity, Nagasawa Masami naturally returned to Toho. After all, before she planned to fade out of the entertainment industry, there were still contracts for several film and television dramas that needed to be completed. Lin Junsoo came to Vernalossom Club. Whether it was AKB48's new single or new sister group, many things needed to be confirmed by Lin Junsoo.
Since AKB48's spring order is also Atsuko Maeda's graduation order, it broke the 600,000 mark at the beginning of the move, and then sold 1.1 million copies in the first week. Although the sales in the second week dived to only more than 100,000 copies, this is also a real million-dollar single! This single Lin Junsoo used the song "Sakuraのになろう". Starting from "Sakuraびぉたち" and ending with "Sakuraのにななきう", this may be the best memory of Atsuko Maeda's AKB48 era.
"You can finally come back. I'm really busy for a while." Akimoto Katsuki saw Lin Junxiu coming to work normally, and immediately came to complain.
"AKB48's summer order is about to be prepared. Has Ah Jiang arranged it in? Have you thought about the new two sister groups? In addition, what do you mean by saying you are planning to adjust the positioning of the sister groups?"
"You really asked them all at once."
Lin Junxiu rolled her eyes. After spending time with Akimoto Yasu, the more he understood Fei Qiu's personality. Fei Qiu is somewhat different from most Japanese people's personalities. Japanese society highly praised the so-called "craftsman spirit" that has done something well for decades, but Akimoto Yasuo's personality is a bit "three minutes" hot. Whether it is the kitten club in the early years or the later AKB48, Akimoto Yasuo can easily get bored after they reach the top.
Once Akimoto Yasushi feels tired of something, you can clearly feel his perfunctoryness. The quality of the singles in AKB48 and even the later Muzaka 46 is hard to describe. AKB48 has never been popular in the national hot list after "Lucky Love Cookies". The lyrics of the singles in Nogizaka 46 are all kinds of tone and auxiliary lyrics, which makes people wonder if they were written by scrolling the keyboard.
During the preparation period of SKE48 and NMB48, Akimoto Yasu is happy. Of course, because he doesn't need to go a few times, after all, that is also the one Lin Junshui is also responsible for the inspection. This time, Fukuoka 48 and Sapporo 48 were gathered together, and Lin Junshui was still busy with other things, so the inspection was all piled up on Akimoto Yasu, which made him feel a little unbearable.
"For summer singles, let Atsuko participate. After all, her graduation concert will not be held until the end of the summer vacation. It can be regarded as the last time our single has been gaining popularity with Atsuko's graduation." Lin Junsoo said.
The summer single that Akimoto Yasuke gave AKB48 this time was "Tears of Surprise". The main target of this single is the Tokyo Giant Baseball Team. Because in the parallel plane, the release date of this single was in 2009, which happened to be the 75th anniversary of the Giant Team. Unfortunately, AKB48 in this plane has a close relationship with the Japanese Football Association, which naturally led to dissatisfaction with the Japanese Baseball Association.
Although baseball is a national sport in Japan, the Japanese Football Association has made steady progress under the guidance of the "Centenary Plan" and has begun to give football and baseball a capital to compete. More importantly, sports are also based on capital. The reason why Japanese football was unpopular in the early years was that Japanese football skills were too poor, national team performance was not good, and players did not want them internationally, so they naturally did not receive attention from young people.
However, when Japanese football rose, the performance of the Japanese national football team made more and more well-known international clubs interested in Japanese players. Starting from Serie A and Bundesliga, Japanese players can be seen in the Premier League and La Liga. In terms of player income, football must be higher than baseball.
The way out for baseball is not just the Japanese professional baseball team in their own country and the major leagues in the United States, but Japanese teenagers have no other place to go. The Korean professional baseball team is inferior to the Japanese professional baseball team, and because of the relationship between the two countries, Japanese players are not popular in the Korean professional baseball team. Although Taiwan Province in China welcomes Japanese players, how much money can a provincial league have?
But there are more countries to choose from football. Not to mention that the J League is now in full swing, there are Japanese players in the Chinese Super League next door. If the level is high enough, the top European first and second-tier European leagues also welcome Japanese players to land. As the income prospects of football players gradually become clearer, more teenagers who love sports choose football. Baseball is true, but can emotions be exchanged for rice balls and tempura?
It is precisely because football began to squeeze out the status and attention of baseball in the student group that the Japanese Baseball Association certainly would not like the Japanese Football Association. AKB48, which has in-depth cooperation with the Japanese Football Association, was not that cold. Since the competent agency has such an attitude, the Tokyo Giants did not make any intention to provoke them, so they found other partners. Because of this change, Akimoto's "Tears of Surprise" was postponed for one year.
In Lin Junxiu's opinion, since the Japan Baseball Association doesn't want it, I'll just look for the Japan Football Association. The last time the cooperation project between the two sides in high school football was very ideal, and now they are preparing for the second season; then this time, we will improve the level of cooperation and directly serve as a support song or promotional song for the J League? If the J1 League is not good, the J2 League is also good. Of course, the J3 League is not good. After all, the attention of J3 is really a bit embarrassing.
"The single is simple. Have you thought about the name of the new sister group? After all, this is related to their theater location." Akimoto Yasushi thought for a while, and felt that it was not a big problem to let Atsuko Maeda participate in this summer list.
"Fukuoka just chooses Chuo District, the name is HKT58, and HKT means 'Hakata'." Lin Junsoo said.
Hakata is the ancient name of Fukuoka, but there is still a Hakata District in Fukuoka City, but its prosperity is not as prosperous as the Chuo District, so Lin Junxiu still chose the Chuo District.
"As for Sapporo, just choose Tanukikoji and use TNK48."
Hikoji Commercial Street is the largest commercial street in Sapporo, right next to Susukino. Although Hikoji is more prosperous than Hikoji, Hikoji's reputation is not very good. Hikoji is the three major Japanese red-light districts named in Tokyo Kabukicho and Fukuoka Nakasou. And it is not so straightforward than Kabukicho in Tokyo. Hikoji's positioning is more like Tokyo's Yoshihara Corridor. Because of this, if the TNK48 theater is placed in Hikoji, the reputation of the girl idol group will not be wanted.
"Sapporo Pinjikoji Commercial Street?" Akimoto Yasushi frowned. "Is it too close to Sutsuno?"
"After all, it's still separated." Lin Junxiu could only comfort her, "Or we wouldn't have a better choice."
Akimoto Yasushi took out the inspection report and map of Sapporo, and after studying it, he had to nod and agreed. Sapporo City is the fifth largest metropolitan area in Japan. Since 48 Group has occupied the other four metropolitan areas, Sapporo cannot be given up on any of this. Since Hikari and Sutsuno are not the same place, there is still something to say when promoting it.
"All these things have been confirmed, so what do you want to adjust the positioning issue?" Akimoto Yasushi said in confusion. "Didn't we reach a consensus at the beginning? The positioning of AKB48's sister group is all geographical idols centered on a certain city. Do we want to change this strategy? If it is all placed in Tokyo, although this is a metropolis, in the end it will definitely be our own people. Even if you want to determine a formula opponent, at most one group will be enough."
According to the development of parallel planes, Akimoto Yasushi should be preparing for Nogishop 46 at this time. However, Akimoto Yasushi in this plane has a happy life at Vernalossom, so Akimoto Yasushi never thought about making backups or anything. What's more, Sony Music, the big funder of Nogishop 46, is still in Vernalossom, so Akimoto Yasushi can't find an investor even if he wants to leave.
Lin Junsoo's idea is to promote a sister group from SKE48 and NMB48 to become an existence similar to Nogizaka 46. Of course, it will be able to develop in the future like Keikasaka 46, Hinagasaka 46, etc. After all, the sister group only develops in the local area, which seems to be a bit waste now.
"Actually, I thought of the controversy between the Red and White Song Club. SKE48 and NMB48 are developing very well in the local area now, but local idols have inherent shortcomings. I wonder if they should come to Tokyo to develop too." Seeing Akimoto Yasushi oppose, Lin Junxiu immediately added, "Of course, their positioning is still local idols, they only come to Tokyo to develop occasionally. Do you still remember the 'Japanese Idol Martial Arts Club' project we cooperated with Chunjun? Although this project has activated the entire idol market, we don't eat much, which makes people feel like making wedding dresses for others. Therefore, I want to make an internal version of the idol martial arts club? For example, let the local sister group release a limited national single every summer to fight against AKB48. This project is called '48G idol Warring States Period'."
After saying that, Lin Junxiu looked at Akimoto Yasu.
Akimoto Yasumi pondered for a while and said hesitantly: "This project will definitely be approved by the capital behind the local sister groups such as Kyoto Industry, but it will also be opposed by the operators behind the AKB48, Sony and Dentsu. From the perspective of you and me as the general producers, we certainly hope that the local group will also have the momentum of AKB48. But the question is, how to divide the interests?"
"It's very simple. The profit of the singles is attributed to the sister groups, and our Tokyo headquarters does not take advantage of this." Lin Junxiu said, "But we have to draw half of the national advertising revenue of local groups."
The idol's income is still an advertisement, and Lin Junxiu wants this part. With this share, Dentsu, Sony naturally won't mind. After all, the sister group only plays AKB48 for a limited time, which can't affect the status of AKB48 in normal times. Moreover, there are many variety shows specials or special plans around this limited time project, which is also a great promotion for AKB48, so there is no need to object.
Although Lin Junxiu and Akimoto Yasu reached a consensus, the final plan still needs to be approved by all shareholders and recognized by fans. However, Lin Junxiu feels that Tokyo's fan base should not be so stingy. After all, the 46 Series in later generations has also achieved great success. The only thing is to promote the promotion strategy, don't emphasize too much about the local attributes of sister groups such as SKE48.
However, as an idol group, the character design is still necessary. The character design of Nogizaka 46 and Shizuka 46 just guessed the pain points of Japanese society at that time and successfully rose to power, so SKE48 can only be referenced but not completely referenced. Moreover, these character designs must conform to the characteristics of their location, otherwise, after these combinations return to the local area, it means that the character design needs to be reconstructed, which is a taboo!
Chapter completed!